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LoadGen is my favorite tool to perform automatic testing in BizTalk. It is easy to configure and extensible. When I want to mimic the characteristics of the BizTalk production environment in a test lab as close as possible, LoadGen is the way to go. The load, in terms of number of messages per time unit...
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Finding the optimal performance for a BizTalk configuration can be hard and time consuming. There are a lot of possible configurations and adaptable settings. Performance testing is a matter of starting tests over and over again using different sets of parameters. Before a new test is started the servers...
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I mentioned in a previous posts that the rule validation in the interactive rule map (cause-effect graph between terms and rules) is part one of the rule validation. In the image on the right (click to zoom) you see the second part that is currently being developed. Test cases that are created in the...
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Mocking frameworks are growing more and more in popularity these days, because to some degree Unit Testing, via TDD or otherwise, has been growing in popularity. This week at the Heartland Developer Conference I gave a talk on what I call "practical" TDD. The talk goes over the basics of TDD...
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In an effort to expand on this entry, while testing, there are many times where I have to use the mllpreceive.exe to capture data.
I have made it easy by adding right click functionality.
I created a batch file called Receive.bat with the following contents:
MLLPRECEIVE.EXE /P 12000 /SPLIT /SB 11 /EB...
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This post follows on from yesterday's post: Creating BizUnit Test Cases for comparing Xml Files If you are using the XmlValidationStep / XmlValidationStepEx BizUnit steps and using XPath validation, then it can be a pain to write all these XPathValidation statements by hand. So I wrote a utility...
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A quiet release by Microsoft this month was the new version of its free BizTalk performance and stress test tool - Microsoft BizTalk LoadGen 2007.
Come to think about it BizTalk LoadGen 2004 unfortunately also never got much praise, even though it is used quite a lot by Microsoft to test BizTalk. You...
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Using Test X509 Certificates with BizTalk Web Services If you’re planning to use X509 digital certificates to secure communication between services then you would need to test all security features at some point. MakeCert.exe tool can help to generate self-signed certificates for development and...
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For my own conveniency I created a VS 2005 project template for BizUnit test projects. The project already contains references to the NUnit and BizUnit assemblies. Also a class file is added with template code for BizUnit. All you have to do is: - download the Zip file here - place it in your `My Documents...